How to make a SVCD???

whumphrey wrote on 12/17/2001, 11:04 PM
Has anyone made a SVCD with Vegas Video 3? I've made a VCD no problem with
Tools|Burn|Video CD but there is no option to render directly to mpeg2. I
CAN make a SVCD mpeg2 file with Tools|Burn|Multimedia CD so I thought I had
a great idea...I'll make the .mpg as a
"multimedia CD" rendering to mpeg2, then burn a "Video CD" with the .mpg
file I just created with mpeg2. When I went to burn, VV3 complained that it
wasn't a "VCD-compliant MPEG" but gave me the option to burn anyway...so I
did. Well, It didn't work in my DVD player (the same player that played VCD
without error). Actually I got a garbled screen of green lines and a very
faint audio track in the background but it never played.

I realize this could mean a number of things such as my DVD player doesn't
support SVCD but I'd sure like to hear how other VV3 users have gone about
creating SVCDs.

Thanks,
-WH

Comments

EArrigotti wrote on 12/18/2001, 5:54 PM
I hate to tell you this, but I think you'll have to purchase some type of SVCD authoring software, i.e. Nero. The cool thing is that you can demo Nero for 30 days with full functionality, and if you choose to buy it, it's only $50. You can download the demo at www.ahead.de (I think). Anyhow, if you figure out any other ways, let us know.
whumphrey wrote on 12/19/2001, 11:24 PM
Actually, Nero is a 30 day free trial but the MPEG-2 plugin is not (at least as far as I can tell). However, I downloaded TMPGEnc and converted my Vegas project to AVI, ran it through TMPG to get a SVCD compliant .mpg, and finally burnt to CD. It worked on my PC DVD-ROM player with WinDVD but I'm still having trouble getting anything to play in my set-top DVD player. It either doen't support SVCD (it does play VCD) or I need to change some of the SVCD template settings in Nero.

Regards,
WH
jyarb wrote on 12/20/2001, 8:25 AM
Go to www.vcdhelp.com they have a great dvd chart for format compatability. It is on theleft hand side of the page.